Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7268, Jeremiah R Field, New Jersey

SERVICE
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New Jersey
Field, Jeremiah R. Jane
W. 7268
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New Jersey 598
Jane Field widow of Jeremiah Field
who died on the 20 th June 1832 of Middlesex Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Prvt Sergt. in the company commanded by Captain Schermer of the by in the N. J. militia time for 5 months Pr. 16.66 12 " " 60 $76.66
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 76 Dollars 66 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of March 1837 and sent to James F. Randolph, N. Brunswick, N. J.
Arrears to the 4th of March '37 460.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 1. Sept. " 38.33
$498.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 — }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book Vol. 1. Page 146

T H E N E W
T E S T A M E N T
Sister anne the wife of peter worp Nan
O F O U R
Died the 11 of February in the year 1830
L O R D A N D S A V I O U R
J E S U S C H R I S T,
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AND WITH THE FORMER
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Diligently compared and revised.
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Jeremiah R Fields was born November 7 th 1753 } Married to Jane Sen Fields was born . . . . . February 4. 1761 } December 24 1778
Genealogy of their children
Margaret their daughter was born June 12 th 1782 Elizabeth their ditto . . . . . December 10 th 1783 Richard their son . . . . . September 12 th 1785 Jacob . . . . . their ditto . . . . . October 31 st 1787 Michael . . . . . their ditto . . . . . October 4 th 1789 Jeremiah their ditto . . . . . February 2 nd 1792 Mary . . . . . their daughter . . . . . March 19 th 1795 Jane . . . . . their ditto . . . . . Nov r 22 nd 1798
The Above When Married
Margaret to James Bagerman August 27 th 1801 Elizabeth to Benjamin McLowe March 3 rd 1808 Richard to Mary Hline December 22 nd 1808
Jacob to Rachel Lepuy March 6 th 1811 Michael to Fanny Trathagare March 9 th 1814 Mary to Samuel Miller January 14 th 1815 Jane to Cornelius Lane January 6 th 1819
Jeremiah to Martha Longfret February 4 th 1830 —

Declaration of Jane Field, of New Jersey, in order to obtain the benefit of the 3 d section of the act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836.
State of New Jersey } On this eighteenth day of October, one Middlesex County } thousand eight-hundred and thirty- five, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, in special term assembled, personally appeared Jane Field, of the County of Somerset, New Jersey, aged seventy five years, who being first sworn according to law, on her oath, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836: That she applies before the Court of Common Pleas of Middlesex County, because it is more convenient to her to do so, & because the witnesses she has to call upon reside chiefly in the neighborhood of New Brunswick, where said Court sits. That she is the widow of Jeremiah Field, formerly of the township of Bridgewater, in the County of Somerset, New Jersey, deceased. That her husband, the said Jeremiah, was in the militia service during the war of the Revolution - belonged to the company of Capt. Sebring, of the afterwards Capt. and held the rank of Sergeant. She recollects the said Jeremiah was not in service in the early part of the war, before their marriage, and that he continued to perform militia service to the end of the war, whenever he was called upon, or as occasion required. She cannot undertake to specify his services in the way that she is informed the rules of the War Department require, and she therefore leaves to others to establish their services by their testimony, so far as they can.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jeremiah Field on the twenty fourth day of December, one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight - (24 th Dec 1778) as she well recollects, and as a Bible record now in her possession

also testifies; that her husband, the aforesaid Jeremiah Field died on the twentieth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty two (20 th June 1832), and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Subscribed & sworn to on the day of 3 June Field a year aforesaid, before, Peter P. Nuyson, Judge 3
Whereupon, the said Court, after a careful & particular investigation, are unhesitatingly of opinion, that the foregoing applicant, Jane Field, is the widow and legal representative of Jeremiah Field, deceased; that she was married to the said Jeremiah, as she states, on the 24 th of December, 1778, that said Jeremiah departed this life on the 20 th of June, 1832; and that the said Jane is now a widow, and has remained a widow, ever since the death of her husband, the said Jeremiah. The Court are also of opinion that the said Jeremiah was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and performed service to have entitled him to a pension under the Act of June 7, 1832.
I Nicholas Boorstein, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, do hereby certify that foregoing to be the original proceedings in said Court, in the matter of the application of Jane Field for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court, this eighteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty six.
N. Boorstein Clerk

State of New Jersey } ss. On this 18 th day of October, 1836, before Middlesex County } me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Hen ry Field, known to me to be a credible person whose testimony is implicitly to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is in the 86 th year of his age, is a soldier of the Revolution and is now in the receipt of a pension as such. That Jeremiah Field, late of Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, N.J. whose widow, Jane Field, has this day made an application for a Pension un- der the act of Congress of 4 th July 1836, was a brother of his - that he was married to this deponent's know- ledge, he being present at the marriage, on the 24 th day of December 1778 - he is enabled to specify the date on account of there being a Bible record of it, as well as by his recollection - he knows that the widow of the said Jeremiah Field, whose name is Jane, is now living, and is the widow of the said Jeremiah, and that she has not been married since the death of the said Jeremi- ah, which occurred in 1832. Deponent further says that said Jeremiah Field was one of the three brothers, Richard & R Field & himself being the two others - that he was younger one year & a half than this deponent, and older than Richard - that all three were in the war of the Revo- lution from the beginning to the end of it - that they were all at home when the war broke out, and lived within three quarters of a mile of each other during the whole of the war. They were then all of them in the Township of Piscataway, Middlesex County, N.J. Deponent is thus particular to show his means of knowing of the services of his brother Jeremiah. They all belonged to Capt. Sabring's company of Middlesex militia, Col. Webb's regt. They were sometimes all out together - though this did not happen often. Deponent cannot, therefore, always specify what officer his brother Jeremiah served under. He can only

day when he was out, and this according to Herbert of his recollection. He would not be absolute where he cannot, from the nature of the case, be expected to have a perfect recollection. He would remark in this place, that the said Jeremiah held the office of Sergeant in his company, and did all his services in that capacity, except as mentioned below.
This defendant commenced his service in 1776, and his brother Jeremiah began his service in the same year  his service in the same year, by enlisting in the same month; Jeremiah, on the other hand, was not called out until some time in 1776, and they were called out at the same time  and served a term of a month on the lines, in the eastern section of New Jersey, in the service of guarding the lines from the enemy on Staten Island. This term was under Capt. Freeman, as he thinks. In the same year the said Jeremiah performed one other term of a month, in the same service, on the Woodbridge Station, but he does not know under what captain. In 1777, defendant believes he himself was out half the time. He can safely say, that his brother Jeremiah did three terms of a month each. This service was all of it, as near as he can recollect, on the lines between Perth Amboy and Elizabethtown, in protecting the inhabitants from the enemy on Staten Island, and enabling them to attend to their farms in some small degree, and their other necessary occupation. In 1778, the said Jeremiah did not less than three terms of a month each. One of these was at the battle of Monmouth. Defendant was not there. The other two were in the service of guarding the lines - a service more dreaded than almost any other, because it was an incessant guarding night & day. In 1779, said Jeremiah was out again and did three terms of a month each, all, as he believes, on the lines between Elizabethtown & Amboy. These Middlesex militia were generally stationed. In 1780 said Jeremiah did, as he thinks, four terms of a month each. This was a hard year. The enemy under a Hessian General, invaded the state by Elizabethtown, and committed great havoc at Springfield.

and other places. Deponent was out this year, as he really believes, at least six months. His brother Jeremiah certainly served four times of a month each. One of these was at Springfield, under Capt. Manning. The remainder were on the lines, as before, in the same kind of service as before mentioned, preventing and punishing depredations. In 1881, deponent still continued in service, and so did his brother Jeremiah. Knows that said Jeremiah was out on the lines of a month each in this year, on the lines as before. He believes that in the succeeding year, the said Jeremiah was also out. He knows that the service continued up to 1883, and that some one of the family was constantly on duty. He is not, however, so positive as to Jeremiah's term in 1882, and therefore omits them. In all his services recited, the said Jeremiah was acting under regular officers, in an embodied corps of militia, subject to the rules and articles of war, that governed the continental army.
Subscribed & sworn to this
day of year aforesaid before
Hendrick Field
me. Note. The interlineation and margin in the foregoing affidavit, were made before the same was executed, and in consequence of deponent's having his recollection refreshed by a conversation with Dennis Field, whose testimony will be found with these papers.
Peter P. Henson on behalf of the Plaintiff
State of New Jersey, On the day and year aforesaid, before me Judd Clerep County N.J. as aforesaid, also appeared personally before Richard R. Field, known to me as a credible person whose testimony can be entirely relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath declares, that he is in the 81 st year of his age, a soldier of the Revolution, and now receiving a pension as such - that he is the brother of Jeremiah Field late of Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, N.J. - that he knows of the marriage of said Jeremiah with Jane Ten Eyck, in December 1778, he was present at the marriage - knows that said Jane, now Jane Field is now living, is the widow of said Jeremiah, and that she has not been mar- ried since the decease of said Jeremiah in 1832. Depo- nent further says, that from his brother the said Jeremiah, living

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jeremiah R. Field a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. N. 7268
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 Served at various times 2 yrs in all till 1782 Pvt + Sgt. Sebring, Freeman, Martin, Manning, Randolph, Dunn, Lupardus, Tallmage and Ross. Webster N.J.  
Battles engaged in, Monmouth.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Piscataway Twp. Middlesex Co. N.J.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 18 1836. Her claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Somerset Co. N.J.
Age at date of application, 6. Feb. 4. 1761.
Remarks: Soldier was born Nov. 7. 1753, he married Dec. 24. 1778 Jane Jeneyck, and died June 20. 1832; Children, Margaret b. June 12. 1782 mar. James Hagerman Aug. 27. 1801; Elizabeth b. Dec. 10. 1783, mar. Benjamin McDowell Mch. 3. 1808; Richard b. Sept. 12. 1785 mar. Mary Klein Dec. 22. 1808; Jacob b. Oct. 31. 1787. m. Rachel Dupuy Mch. 6. 1811; Michael b. Oct. 4. 1789 mar. Jenny Daphagare Mch. 9. 1814; Jeremiah b. Feb. 2. 1792 mar. Martha Longstreet Feb. 4. 1830; Mary born Mch. 19. 1795 mar. Samuel Respectfully, Miller Jan. 14. 1815, Janet b. Nov. 22. 1798 mar. Gor- nelius Lane Jan. 16. 1819,
Commissioner.

1913. Sept 29. Hist. to Mrs. C. L. Goodrich. M 73 H.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
7268
Jane Field
Wid. of
Jeremiah Field
Sergt. Supt. Milia.
Act: _____
July 14/86, Ser. 321
Index:—Vol. _____
4
Page _____
236
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No. 687. 3. Sec.
New Jersey
Jane Field's
Application under the Law of July 1836.
See Margaret Mem o Jemimah Field - L. 1. 11. 6
Admitted
Aug. 12 1840
Patented 5 "
17 Dec
James P. Randolph, Agent New Brunswick N.J.

State of New Jersey, On this 18 th day of October 1896, before Middlesex County, me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Dennis Field known to me as a credible person, whose testimony is to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is in the 96 th year of his age, a soldier of the Revolution, and now in the receipt of a pension as such - that he was most intimately acquainted with Jeremiah Field, late of the town- ship of Bridgewater, Somerset County, N.J. - Knows of his marriage in 1778 to Jane Ten Eyck, now Jane Field - Knows that said Jane is now living, the widow of said Jeremiah, and that she has remained the widow of said Jeremiah ever since his death in 1832 - Knows that the Clergyman, the Rev Archi- bald Reed, by whom the said Jeremiah & Jane were married is lay since deceased. Deponent further on his oath declares, that he has a clear and distinct recollection of most of the services of the said Je- remiah in the war of the Revolution - Knows that he held the office of Sergeant in Capt Schenck's company, and acted as such in all his tours except the five months service - Knows that said Jeremiah, after performing a tour of a month or two early in the year of 1776, en- listed under Capt Freeman in the five months ser- vice, which was called for by the approach of the Bri- tish to the City of New York over Long Island. Knows that said Jeremiah performed this service, as a pri- vate, and staid out his whole five months, keeping with Washington's army the most or the whole, of the time. Deponent was not in service at that time, but his recollection of it is bright as if had occurred only yes- terday, and he has just reminded Richard R Field and Hendrick Field of it, and they at once recalled it to their memories, and requested their testimony to be corrected to conform to the facts. After this ser- vice was completed, deponent knows that the said Jeremi- ah was constant and active in service, whenever called upon, to the close of the war. Knows that he was out in each and every year - in 1776, 77, 78, 79, 80 & 81, not less,

than three Tons of a month in each and every year. As is advised, however, that two other witnesses have entered into a detail of this service, and that therefore it is un- necessary for him to do it. He has heard their testi- mony read, and can say with certainty that they have in no instance overstated the amount of the service rendered by the said Jeremiah.
Subscribed & known to the day & year aforesaid before me
Dennis Field
Peter P. Runyon Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey Middlesex County I Nicholas Bowne Clerk of the County aforesaid, do hereby Certify that Peter P. Runyon before whom the fore- going affidavits of Hendrick Field, Richard R. Field and Dennis Field were made, is and was at the time thereof, a Justice of the Peace duly com- missioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto, is in his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty fourth day of November Eighteen hundred & thirty six.
N Bowne Clerk
10/82

New Jersey Supplemental papers in the case of Jane Field
Law of July 1856.
James D. Randolph, agent N. Brunswick

State of New Jersey Middlesex County } ss. In this eighth day of December 1856, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Dennis Field, known to me as a credible person, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he has been heretofore examined as to the Revolutionary services of Jeremiah Field, late of the County of Somerset, deceased, in aid of the application for a Pension of Jane Field, widow of said Jeremiah, but that two other wit- nesses having testified to the particulars of the services of the said Jeremiah, he had omitted to do so. Understanding, however, that their testimony is not according to the rules of the War Department, he will now supply such details as his means of information and recollection will permit. He was enabled on his first examination to refresh and correct the memory of other witnesses, and he therefore feels the more confident now in his recollections. He must be expressly understood, however, as making no unqualified or absolute statements, where he may possibly be mistaken, and where it is so difficult to decide.
In the three tours of a month each performed by the said Je- remiah in the year 1777 in the eastern section of the state - on the lines as it is termed, the first this deponent believes, was under Capt. Manning - the second under Capt. Randolph - and the third under Capt. Dunn. They were all rendered in the service of guarding the lines from the enemy on the opposite shore of Staten Island. In 1778, said Jeremiah did at least three tours of a month each - this deponent thinks he did twice as much as this. The first of these tours, as he thinks, was on the lines under Capt. Freeman - the second at the time and on the occasion of the battle of Monmouth, and the marches previous thereto, under Capt. Lebring - and the third again on the lines, in the latter part of 1778, under Capt. Lebring. In 1779, said Jeremiah did three tours of a month each, all of them, he believes, on the lines - the first tour, he thinks, was under Capt. Lupardus - the second under Capt. Manning - and the third under Capt. Gallmage. In 1780, the said Jeremiah did at least four tours of a month each, the calls this year being very frequent.

and the service unusually arduous and hazardous. The first of these tours was on the lines, as he thinks, under Capt. Rops - the second at Springfield, under Capt. Manning - the third on the lines under Capt. Dunn - and the fourth also on the lines under Capt. Freeman. In 1781, this deponent was in the gun boat service for a while, but he knows that said Jeremiah did not less than three tours of a month each - the first tour, according to the best of his recollection, under Capt. Leppardus - the second under Capt. Freeman, and the third under Capt. Rops - all on the lines. In the early part of 1782, the said Jeremiah did one tour of a month on the lines under Capt. Rops, as he believes. He thinks the militia were not much called upon after the spring of 1782, though the force on the lines was kept up until the evacuation of the Island by the British. This force, he believes, was principally enlisted men, as the militia were completely worn out, and many of them received in fortune and health. Deponent feels entirely confident that he has greatly underrated the amount of said Jeremiah's services, but prefers to be in error on the safe side. He is now in the 76 th year of his age, and is a relative of said Jeremiah, and from living within stones throw of him during the war, had every opportunity of knowing of his services. He acted throughout as Sergeant except in his first month's service.
Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid, before me
Peter P. Remyon Justice of the Peace
Dennis Field
Note of New Jersey, Meddlebury County, I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Peter P. Remyon before whom the foregoing affidavits of Dane Dald and Dennis Field, were taken, is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned therefor, and that his signature hereon is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office, this twelfth day of December eighteen hundred and thirty six.
N Booraem

State of New Jersey } Middlesex County }
Be this ninth day of December 1836 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Jane Field known to me as a credible person who being duly sworn on her oath saith that having applied for a pension in right of her husband Jeremiah Field under the Law of the United States passed on the 4th day of July 1836 and having in her declaration for that purpose stated that her mar- riage with the said Jeremiah was recorded and hav- ing learned from her agent that the record alluded to must accompany her application she has reluctantly consented that the same should be taken from her family bible and positively declares that the same is the true family record and that she knows of no other record of her marriage and the birth of her children. She further knows that it was taken from an old bible which at the time was much worn and mutilated and has long since been lost that the transfer was made soon after the purchase of the bible from which this record is now taken that it was transcribed near forty years since for the purpose of preserving the history of the family from oblivion and hopes that the depart- ment will return it to her when it shall have been satisfied of its genuineness. And further the said Jane Field declares that at the time she gave her relation to her agent she did not inform him that her late husband had an R. in his name not thinking it necessary to be so particular and that the person named in her declaration Jeremiah Field is the same identical person her deceased husband in the record herewith appended named Jeremiah R. Field the R. having been omitted through inadvertence. Sworn & subscribed the day of and year last above mentioned before me Peter D. Henson Justice of the Peace
Jane Field

Revolutionary War Records Section.
September 20, 1913
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Sir: -
Do your records show that a pension was granted Jeremiah Field, of New Jersey, for services in the Revolutionary War? He was born at Round Brook, New Jersey, November 7, 1753. Can you give me the date of his death?
This information is desired in making application for membership with the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Thanking you in advance for your reply, I am,
Yours truly,
Mrs. C. L. Goodrich,
Apt 702 The Alabama
Washington D.C.